Took a day off to watch the Boston Marathon - and it looks like I found the perfect spot to watch it :-)
I went to Wellesley College and was watching it in the middle of a crowd of screaming college girls. That's about half the distance of the race, between milestones 12 and 13 and you could already hear the noise at the Wellesley Square commuter rail station, about half a mile away from the college.
It was really amzaing to stand in the middle of all these excited people and watch the marathon. After about two hours or so, most of the field passed and the runners were more scattered, but the Wellsley girls were still cheering and applauding at the same noise. Must have been an amazing feeling for the running ...
Tomorrow, I'll upload a few picutues, I'm just too lazy to go the the office right now ....
Update: The pictures are now here.
I'm also starting to face my very own marathon very soon: I'm driving all the way from Boston to Florida and back in about two weeks. My original plan was to rent a car in Boston, drive down to Key West and fly back from Tampa Bay, but it looks like all car rental companies are charging and incredibly high one-way rent for this - about $400-$500 or so. So I changed my plan and drive down and back again.
Before anybody calls me crazy, I have a map and I know how far it is. I know that it's 1800 miles one-way, I know that 1800 miles are about 2950 kilometers and I also know that there's a speed limit in this country ...
Some people also told me that New Jersey sucks, that there's nothing to see in North Carolina, that Florida is a really a _very_ long state and that I'll see nothing but highways ....
However, I really want to see South Carolina, I really want to see Georgia and I really want to make this trip.
So I started thinking about a concrete plan for this and here's what I have so far:
On the afternoon of the 16th day, I'll fly back to Germany.
It's a very tough schedule, but it should be doable - and I'll see all of the east coast of the US :-)